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Title	Source	Link	License	Notes
Image Analysis: What You See	Writing Guide with Handbook	https://niuits-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/r/personal/tb0ceh1_mail_niu_edu/Documents/fyc_oer_raw/t10-03.pdf?csf=1&web=1&e=S0fjGc	CC-BY 4.0
The Visual Design Elements and Principles That Make Good Design	Flux-Academy	https://www.flux-academy.com/blog/the-visual-design-elements-and-principles-that-make-good-design	Copyrighted	Ad-free
More than Words: Introduction to Multimodal Communication	YouTube; UO Center for Applied Second Language Studies	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBP-Dfp-eAQ	Copyrighted	short (01:25)
Consider the lobster – By David Foster Wallace	Gormet Magazine	http://www.gourmet.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_lobster.html	Copyrighted	Article for students to analyze
Not Here to Make Friends: On the importance of unlikable female protagonists – By Roxane Gay	Buzzfeed	https://www.buzzfeed.com/roxanegay/not-here-to-make-friends-unlikable?utm_term=.gj5QJNX5o#.nqXrx0yVG	Copyrighted	Article for students to analyze
Informed Arguments: A Guide to Writing and Research	Pantuso, LeMire, Anders	https://pressbooks.library.tamu.edu/informedarguments/	CC-BY-SA 4.0	See especially 3.3 What is Rhetorical Analysis?, 3.6 Rhetorical Appeals: Logos, Pathos, and Ethos Defined, 3.13 Visual Analysis in Composition & Rhetoric and Literature.
How Arguments Work - A Guide to Writing and Analyzing Texts in College (Mills)	Mills	https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Composition/Advanced_Composition/How_Arguments_Work_-_A_Guide_to_Writing_and_Analyzing_Texts_in_College_(Mills)	CC-BY 4.0	See especially sections 4: Assessing the Strength of an Argument (Logos), 8: How Arguments Appeal to Emotion (Pathos), 9: How Arguments Establish Trust and Connection (Ethos), 10: Writing Argument Analysis
3.3 What is Rhetorical Analysis?	Informed Arguments: A Guide to Writing and Research	https://pressbooks.library.tamu.edu/informedarguments/chapter/what-is-rhetorical-analysis/	Copyrighted CC-BY-SA 4.0
3.6 Rhetorical Appeals: Logos, Pathos, and Ethos Defined	Informed Arguments: A Guide to Writing and Research	https://pressbooks.library.tamu.edu/informedarguments/chapter/rhetorical-appeals-logos-pathos-and-ethos-defined/	CC-BY-SA 4.0
3.13 Visual Analysis in Composition & Rhetoric and Literature	Informed Arguments: A Guide to Writing and Research	https://pressbooks.library.tamu.edu/informedarguments/chapter/visual-analysis-in-composition-rhetoric-and-literature/	CC-BY-SA 4.0